All the ingredients to make fine black powder are available at Lowe's or Home Despot in their garden centers. Powdered sulphur is sprinkled on plants; stump remover is 100% pure potassium nitrate; and you can either buy a small piece of pine (preferably w/o knots) or use pine sawdust to make charcoal. Just put some soft, dry wood in a metal can with a metal lid and "cook" it in your wood stove to produce charcoal. There you have it---the major ingredients. Check out some of the excellent videos on YouTube for making black powder.

you can either buy a small piece of pine (preferably w/o knots) or use pine sawdust to make charcoal. Just put some soft, dry wood in a metal can with a metal lid and "cook" it in your wood stove to produce charcoal.

What about coffee creamer? It's another ingredient in pyrotechnics used to make "Cremora Fireballs" AKA fuel-air fireball, or if contained, a fuel-air explosion. The kind you can get in the supermarket will work, too. Not the easiest thing to make......